Horokhiv

City in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine

Horokhiv Горохів Horochów (in Polish)
City
Horokhiv District administration
Flag Coat of arms
50°29′58″N 24°45′54″E / 50.49944°N 24.76500°E / 50.49944; 24.76500
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Volyn Oblast
Raion	Lutsk Raion
Hromada	Horokhiv urban hromada
Government
• Mayor	Viktor Hodyk
Elevation	213 m (699 ft)
Population (2022)
• Total	8,925

Horokhiv (Ukrainian: Горохів, romanized: Horochiv, Polish: Horochów, Yiddish: ארכעוו Arkhev, Russian: Горохов, romanized: Gorochov, Belarusian: Гарохаў, romanized: Harochaŭ) is a small city in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. Population: 8,925 (2022 estimate).^[1]

History

The first written mention of it was in 1240 in the Hypatian Codex.

From 1795 until the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was part of Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire; from 1921 to 1939 it was part of Wołyń Voivodeship of Poland.

A railway station was built here in 1924-1925.^[2]

Since September 1939 it was a part of the USSR. Also, in 1939 it became a town.^[2]^[3]

A local newspaper is published here since 1939.^[4]

The Germans occupied town from summer 1941 to July 1944. Its Jewish population, comprising over half the town’s inhabitants, was murdered en masse during The Holocaust.^{[citation needed]}

Horokhiv served as the administrative center of Horokhiv Raion prior to its dissolution in 2020. Since then, it is a part of Lutsk Raion.

Gallery

Ascension Church (1844)
Ascension Church bell tower (1844)
Ascension Church entrance fresco
Ascension chapel (1871)
World War II Memorial
Mass graves of World War II warriors

References

^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b Горохов // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / редколл., гл. ред. Б. А. Введенский. 2-е изд. том 12. М., Государственное научное издательство «Большая Советская энциклопедия», 1952. стр.229
^ Горохов // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 1. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.326
^ № 2632. Строитель коммунизма // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986 - 1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., «Книжная палата», 1994. стр.345